I've just added deb-multimedia again to my PC because of dvdrip. Ok, I was just assuming that it wasn't there because it's illegal at the US, it could be because of several reasons.
From the point of view of a user, it's a hard choice.
Yeah, d.m.o packages do break upgrades, creating extra work and making the system less stable. But then, the official repository does not carry lots of software that are prohibited by US laws... Well, not the entire world is subject to US laws.
Well, around here you can't just evade any responsibility for your product by putting some text in a contract. Even less an EULA style (AKA invalid) one.
Also, you can't just put responsibility onto somebody just because you read something he wrote and followed it without any thinking, even less so if you never directly contacted or paid anything for him. Yeah, there is the odd case about blantantly misleading information with obvious nefarious consequences, like distributing a virus, but not in the general case.
You have a sick legal system there in the US. You should work into reforming it. (Yeah, we also have lots of problems here, and should work into solving them, I'm not putting my place above yours.)
Fermi Paradox concludes that we shouldn't even exist, because the aliens should be already here before we had a chance to appear. It's extremely improbable that aliens are common enough for some of them to come here, but still rare enough for none be here already, as the Sun is quite young, and our galaxy could be colonized in just a few millions of years with ships moving in plausible speeds (the kind of speed the project Orion would acheve). Or, TLDR, there is likely nobody out there.
Even then, this thing still bothers me. It's the perfect illustration that if people can do something stupid, somebody will. There is no upside to the project, just huge (extremely unlikely) downsides; yet, it's going ahead. There are plenty of other stupid things with huge downsides that we are getting able to do...
Yes, but I'm also saddened for a generation of kids who grow up interacting w/ computers to only consume media, not to create.
When I was a kid, I had to beg my parents (computers were at least two orders of magnitude above a kid's budget) for years untill they brough me a (8 bits) PC. That happened because they had a few years with very good financials (and about 80% of the people on my country would classify their normal years as very good ones) and because they changed a bit their electronics wishlist because of my constant asking.
Nowadays a computer costs $35. There are toys cheaper than that, but depending on your quality treshold, it's cheap than the median. It's well inside a kid's bugdet... And it'll only get cheaper in the future.
I really don't think that support problems will increase. People are just not throwing away functional computers, that's different from keeping non-functional ones.
Also, more demand wouldn't make the market a better place to be? (Except that I expect the demand to get lower, because as computers get cheaper, people will keep less non-functional ones.)
1 - I doubt it's true even just looking at the offcial information; (Or, in other words, I'm quite sure you didn't look) 2 - Lots and lots of software that claim not work on Linux do work.
You know... It's ok because you are just sending people against windmills, but that:
You've got to fix the people before you can fix the system.
Did you take that quote out of an early XX century distopia or a cyrberpunk book? You started on good ground, but if it takes changing the people for a government system to be good, it's better to just throw the system away, and look for something we can use.
There is also a huge difference between requiring that cars get out of the factory with seat belts, and requiring people to wear them. One has economical consequences that made it possible for many people to have seat belts, for a very small cost to the ones that didn't want them, the other is just a restriction on people's behaviour, with no externalities (unless you push things as far as indirect economical consequences of labor and health support).
The fact that something is a good idea isn't reason to turn it into law. And as a general rule, restricting people's behaviour just because there is one clearly better way to do things is a great way to stop technological progress and empower the government to declare witches in the general population and punish them at will.
Now, that said, you are right that the mandatory use of sealt bealts is not something worth fighting. At least not in the current context.
Communism as defined by Marx is a theoretical contruct that can not be applied to humans. As a consequence, nobody ever gets tagged a "communist" as defined by Marx, and every label of "communist" today is as defined by example in the URSS (there were other kinds of communism in fashion before the Russian Revolution, but almost nobody knows them by now). (Also, notice that the URSS government was also proposed by Marx, just with a nother name, and populated by flawless beings... I often wonder how far did Marx political ambitions go, because I can't belive a smart person could honestly belive in what he wrote.)
I can, obviously see the difference between Marx's constuct and Facism (the biggest one being that one of them isn't real), but that clearly doesn't apply to the context of the thread.
Then please educate me. I can see nothing but a thin line between Communism and Facism. And it's an imaginary one (it only exists at the countability).
So, because the thing is available for free at a google search, book authors must punch their customers in the face every time they sell a book. That'll make people flock to the paid - punch enabled - version.
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I've just added deb-multimedia again to my PC because of dvdrip. Ok, I was just assuming that it wasn't there because it's illegal at the US, it could be because of several reasons.
And I want to lose 10 pounds. Yeah, I'm eating all that desert with soda, but I still want to lose that weight - if it somehow is gone, I'll be happy.
Anyway, he's currently serving 404 for requests for the software repository. So, it's not malicious.
From the point of view of a user, it's a hard choice.
Yeah, d.m.o packages do break upgrades, creating extra work and making the system less stable. But then, the official repository does not carry lots of software that are prohibited by US laws... Well, not the entire world is subject to US laws.
And IE8 is still a bit better than 7.
They are still a piece of shit. But "better" is a relative term.
- Hey, those are the only things we export*. Let's destroy every other industry so we can be a bit more sure that other countries will keep buying it.
* Except that this is not true, but, whatever.
Depends of where those copies are made.
Well, around here you can't just evade any responsibility for your product by putting some text in a contract. Even less an EULA style (AKA invalid) one.
Also, you can't just put responsibility onto somebody just because you read something he wrote and followed it without any thinking, even less so if you never directly contacted or paid anything for him. Yeah, there is the odd case about blantantly misleading information with obvious nefarious consequences, like distributing a virus, but not in the general case.
You have a sick legal system there in the US. You should work into reforming it. (Yeah, we also have lots of problems here, and should work into solving them, I'm not putting my place above yours.)
Fermi Paradox concludes that we shouldn't even exist, because the aliens should be already here before we had a chance to appear. It's extremely improbable that aliens are common enough for some of them to come here, but still rare enough for none be here already, as the Sun is quite young, and our galaxy could be colonized in just a few millions of years with ships moving in plausible speeds (the kind of speed the project Orion would acheve). Or, TLDR, there is likely nobody out there.
Even then, this thing still bothers me. It's the perfect illustration that if people can do something stupid, somebody will. There is no upside to the project, just huge (extremely unlikely) downsides; yet, it's going ahead. There are plenty of other stupid things with huge downsides that we are getting able to do...
You seem to have lost the movie reference, so let me clarify...
Woosh!
Yeah, I think that's the sound of their guns.
PCs are big and power hungry, but cheap and powerfull.
You can get a very good tower computer from the price of an iPad. The cost/power ratio is completely favorable to the desktop.
When I was a kid, I had to beg my parents (computers were at least two orders of magnitude above a kid's budget) for years untill they brough me a (8 bits) PC. That happened because they had a few years with very good financials (and about 80% of the people on my country would classify their normal years as very good ones) and because they changed a bit their electronics wishlist because of my constant asking.
Nowadays a computer costs $35. There are toys cheaper than that, but depending on your quality treshold, it's cheap than the median. It's well inside a kid's bugdet... And it'll only get cheaper in the future.
I really don't think that support problems will increase. People are just not throwing away functional computers, that's different from keeping non-functional ones.
Also, more demand wouldn't make the market a better place to be? (Except that I expect the demand to get lower, because as computers get cheaper, people will keep less non-functional ones.)
It's still rare, but much less so if you restrict your search to positions of power.
No problem, I got your joke.
I just can't see a troll like that AC starve :) It hurts my feelings!
Certainly, there are lots of software that won't run on Linux. But I really doubt the GGP makes a company run only with it.
And the patents are useless now. So why not sell Java for somebody that can keep its value, instead of using all their energy to depreciate it?
To be fair, ending non-paid support can not be described as "holding an e-gun to your customers head".
If they were taking a DRM server down, or publishing patches that made it stop working you'd be right on the spot. But MS is just ending support.
1 - I doubt it's true even just looking at the offcial information; (Or, in other words, I'm quite sure you didn't look)
2 - Lots and lots of software that claim not work on Linux do work.
Old times... Windows had upgrades that actualy improved it by then.
You know... It's ok because you are just sending people against windmills, but that:
Did you take that quote out of an early XX century distopia or a cyrberpunk book? You started on good ground, but if it takes changing the people for a government system to be good, it's better to just throw the system away, and look for something we can use.
There is also a huge difference between requiring that cars get out of the factory with seat belts, and requiring people to wear them. One has economical consequences that made it possible for many people to have seat belts, for a very small cost to the ones that didn't want them, the other is just a restriction on people's behaviour, with no externalities (unless you push things as far as indirect economical consequences of labor and health support).
The fact that something is a good idea isn't reason to turn it into law. And as a general rule, restricting people's behaviour just because there is one clearly better way to do things is a great way to stop technological progress and empower the government to declare witches in the general population and punish them at will.
Now, that said, you are right that the mandatory use of sealt bealts is not something worth fighting. At least not in the current context.
Communism as defined by Marx is a theoretical contruct that can not be applied to humans. As a consequence, nobody ever gets tagged a "communist" as defined by Marx, and every label of "communist" today is as defined by example in the URSS (there were other kinds of communism in fashion before the Russian Revolution, but almost nobody knows them by now). (Also, notice that the URSS government was also proposed by Marx, just with a nother name, and populated by flawless beings... I often wonder how far did Marx political ambitions go, because I can't belive a smart person could honestly belive in what he wrote.)
I can, obviously see the difference between Marx's constuct and Facism (the biggest one being that one of them isn't real), but that clearly doesn't apply to the context of the thread.
Then please educate me. I can see nothing but a thin line between Communism and Facism. And it's an imaginary one (it only exists at the countability).
So, because the thing is available for free at a google search, book authors must punch their customers in the face every time they sell a book. That'll make people flock to the paid - punch enabled - version.